I’d settle for repealing the 17th amendment.
Indeed, letting corrupt state legislators appoint Senators would be great because politicians only become corrupt once they win federal office, while they serve in state office they are saints who support limited government and oppose federal encroachment on “state’s rights” issues, even the liberal rats and RINOs. You’d be hard pressed to find any state legislator that supports Roe V. Wade or federal gun control for example. ;)
Meanwhile on planet Earth,
The AZ leg would reelect McCain.
The WI leg would replace the honest moonbat Feingold with a corrupt moonbat under strict orders to bring home more pork.
The CT legislature would elect Ned Lamont to replace Liarman and reelect Chris Dodd (whom will lose next year under the current system).
The IL House Speaker would give 1 seat to his bouncing baby girl, the State AG, and auction the other seat off, Acorn would win the bid on behalf of Jesse Jackson.
The Massachusetts leg would elect a member of the Kennedy family. (chances for a GOP Senator would go from half a chance in the current special election to mathematically impossible as the GOP legislators could all fit in a van and carpool to work together)
In Alaska the the RINOs would vote with the rats to elect a pork loving RINO to one seat and a rat to to the other. So things would stay the same in Alaska.
Some smart people like this idea, but it is based on vague principle, the reality is you lower the pool of voters from the whole state to a couple hundred career politicians and things get worse, how worse is the only question.
The problem with the Senate is not the manner in which it’s elected. It’s the people that get elected and their twin ideologies, power for it’s own sake and socialism.